Archive for August 2022

Our first gardening day of the new school year was a huge success! The weather cooperated beautifully, offering us sunshine and a light breeze! Thank you to all parents and grandparents who joined us and pitched in to help for gardening day! Children, parents, and grandparents happily pulled weeds, trimmed tomato plants, raked leaves and…

“The hand is the instrument of intelligence. The child needs to manipulate objects and to gain experience by touching and handling. ” —The 1946 London Lectures, Dr. Maria Montessori

This week at CountrySide Montessori School we created our own masterpieces and we leaned about different artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Henri Matisse, Jackson Pollock, Georgia O’Keeffe and others. The children were able to express themselves, their uniqueness and creativity, through making sculptures, collages, splatter art and much more! We enjoyed banana popsicles, watermelon, pizza…